Buller's (2013) book Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference caters for both aspiring and experienced leaders in higher education. It gives new insights and practical strategies to help them interpret their roles differently and foster a more constructive and positive leadership style. This is based on Buller's personal leadership experience, recent scholarly research and a wide range of resources. Throughout his book, Buller provides readers with a set of scenarios, case studies, exercises and thought experiments to help put theory into practice, as well as prompt administrators to identify their core values and reflect on their own practices. Overview In his book, Buller highlights the fact that leadership in higher education requires different strategies than that in corporations or schools. This is because shared governance and collegiality play a much more important role in higher education, where hierarchy is more fluid due to the frequency with which administrators rise from and return to faculty positions. According to Buller, positive academic leadership is not only about thinking positively and having a good attitude. It is about focusing on the strengths and successes of the department and on the capabilities of its individuals to develop what is already working well, rather than focusing strictly on weaknesses and solving problems. Despite the significant challenges in higher education, positive academic leaders base their practices on hope, joy, resilience, commitment to service and appreciative inquiry. All of which lead to positive change to bring about greater benefits in the long run. This requires creating a